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Nature 429, 613-615 (10 June 2004) | doi:10.1038/429613a
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Georg Weiglein1
Abstract
The top quark is by far the heaviest elementary particle known. A measurement of its mass with higher precision has bearing on our understanding of the fundamental interactions of nature.
The basic building-blocks of matter, as far as we know, are quarks and leptons, together with the force-carrying particles that mediate their interactions. Quarks and leptons (the latter group including the electron) are grouped in three generations; the particles in the second and third generations seem a perfect copy of those of the first generation, except that their masses are much larger.
- Georg Weiglein is at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
Email: georg.weiglein@durham.ac.uk
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